"Also unreleased in the U.S., this stylish melodrama is set in America and the Canadian wilds. But while the Fernandel vehicle satirized American cliches, this film seems to assume that those cliches are virtually documentarian truths, and enlarges on them to make them dramatically interesting. The opening scenes of New York life in penthouse and nightclub are strange enough, but a murder trial is even more bizarre, to say nothing of a New York insane asylum! Once the story moves to the Frozen North (a combination of stock footage, the Alps and rural France under heavy snow) it adapts a more serious mien. It has a measured pace and a somewhat inconclusive finale, but is an interesting film for filling in our gaps in the careers of director Jacques Feyder and star Michèle Morgan. Incidentally, although made in 1939, its release in Occupied France was held up until 1942, and then its title was changed since the original title unwittingly suggested a contemporary political meaning. The film is unsubtitled, but easy to follow, and a synopsis will be provided." William K. Everson